Dauphin County issued the following news release Wednesday afternoon, regarding the 911 outage in Derry Township:

"9-1-1 call service has been temporarily restored to landline phone exchanges 533, 534, 312 and 520 in Dauphin County. Because emergency calls in the affected area are being re-routed to Dauphin County’s 9-1-1 Center, citizens may now call 9-1-1 in an emergency.

Dauphin County Emergency Management Agency and the Derry Township Police Department received reports earlier today about a 9-1-1 system outage in the phone exchanges mentioned above.